Harry Stack Sullivan Quotes

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• There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
• I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was…
• When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too,…
• All of us are much more human than otherwise
• If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
• What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love…
• The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can…
• It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is…
• It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
• When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love…
• Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
• If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like…
• What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.
• When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists.
• If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like…

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